Applications of Digitization
Michael Jensen,
Newberry Library, May 2004, Chicago


National Academies Press Info


  • Publishes 200 reports/year advising the nation on science, engineering, technology, medicine, and health policy
  • > 3000 reports fully, freely browsable online
    (> 550,000 pages available, each printable)

  • > 10,000,000 visitors/year
    (~ 200,000 per week, 2003)

  • 100,000,000 page views/year (60 million Openbook pages, 40 million other) (~ 2,000,000 per week, 2003)
  • NAP has been digitizing publications for free online dissemination since 1996 (page images, page-based HTML, PDFs, TEI XML)


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